hydrological characteristics

Nowadays, GIS Technologies are used in many areas of human life, both in everyday life and scientific research. The purpose of the presented study is to identify the relationship between the scale of topographic maps and the main hydrographic characteristics of the river based on the data of observations in the Siverskyi Donets basin. The study is based on the results of the identification of the hydrographic network, which was performed based on the Open Street Map in the GIS environment of the QGIS program using the method of A. N. Straller and I. N. Hartzman.

Aim of the work. To develop a method of automated allocation of catchment basins and obtaining their hydrological and morphometric characteristics, which is based on digital terrain models. Methods and results of work. A necessary condition for the correct filling of the terrain is the presence of points of true flow at the edge of the settlement area (if the river flows into the lake, it should not enter the calculated area completely, otherwise incorrect results will be obtained).